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Keep in mind that the cuts to Medicaid don’t go into effect until late 2026 conveniently after the midterm elections. Do not be fooled. Vote these ghouls out. Show up and VOTE in the midterms.

In times like these, I draw inspiration from Mister Rogers, who fully understood that we’re all neighbors.

“When I was a boy & I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

We must all be helpers, y’all!!

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Maybe it's time for a different approach.

If you like what you've seen from Sen. Cory Booker and other Democratic lawmakers this week, call and email their offices and let them know that. Evidence of public support gives lawmakers more clout with their colleagues to keep doing what they're doing. Constituent encouragement becomes influence.

Arguably one of the cutest owls of North America and definitely rarest! ID: Boreal Owl

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#Owl #Nature #Birds

« Il y a urgence à développer des aires marines protégées pour faire face au dérèglement climatique et à l’effondrement de la biodiversité » TRIBUNE. Afin de lutter contre la mise en péril des océans, les scientifiques recommandent d’interdire la pêche industrielle sur 30 % des surfaces maritimes planétaires, et non pas de définir la prote...

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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.

"Official reject the idea" of a 2% wealth tax, by... pointing to what people pay in income tax.

A tax on wealth is not the same as a tax on income, FFS!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Four iPhone snapshots of oaks on hillsides, with their dark crooked boughs visible behind the tender new leaves and vivid green grass below.

So much horrific news. But also yesterday, the oaks were leafing out and the grass was maximum green. The Bay Area dresses up in drag as Ireland this time every year, and happy St. Patrick's to all you anticolonialists and arborists.

I kind of feel that were forgetting a lot of people saw dead babies on Instagram and tiktok last year killed by American bombs and bullets and that lead to feeling a certain way about Gaza. This all feels like a national gaslighting.

Nothing Zelensky could have done would change the fact that Trump is Putin's groveling vassal and has been as long as he's been in political life. And Ukraine was one of the reasons why defeating Trump was really important, but of course the 10,000 reasons are now on full display.

European weapons industry revived

The US just potentially lost trillions of dollars, Europe has revived its arms industry and giving European manufacturers priority. US contracts are being pushed aside and European companies are now receiving record breaking orders.

These are the top companies surging right now.

If you don't need to, don't travel to the US. Cancel your plans and book somewhere else. Stop giving money to Trump.

No congressperson should sit quietly during Trump’s speech. Their responsibility is to openly revolt and disrupt the process.

Decorum doesn’t extend to fascists. #3E #STU #donotcomply

I think this was my favorite photo from Vermont this weekend.

Trump and Musk are doing a $350 billion pump and dump with your tax money. Trump’s “Crypto Reserve” is a money laundering scheme and you are being robbed blind.

Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.

MAGA wants peace in the same way a guy that beats his wife just wants a happy marriage.

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war!

How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

Don't mess with the Quakers when it comes to protecting marginalized people. It's our whole deal. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

Exactly right

Never underestimate the vengeful nihilism at the heart of this movement. The glitter-eyed fanatics behind Project 2025 and other such programmes will smash whatever is most precious to you, partly at the behest of commercial interests – but also to enjoy watching the pain it inflicts. They will crush beauty, joy, community and hope precisely because other people value them.

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...